Easy to understand and brief, this idea: Have the musical
score as subtitles on TV, film and video. Because right now
all we get is stuff like a few quavers which bear no
resemblance to the music, or "DRAMATIC MUSIC" or
something, and it's really uninformative. And considering
you get the
text of the script, what's wrong with the music?
How are deaf people or people who can't hear supposed to
appreciate the atmosphere intended or make their own
interpretations if you just do that?

Oh, and they should use Bliss for subtitles too, but that's just
an afterthought. Text is fine but you need it in loads of
languages.

Midi, or a standard musical stave. But either will only be useful to someone who has had hearing at some time in their life, and subsequently lost it, thus being able to relate the visual representation to the sound described.

I'm not too sure about that. I've never formally studied
music but I get the mood intended, like lots of other
people. Continually making an association between events
and the visual representation of the music could build up
the same thing. It wouldn't be quite as evocative, I'm sure,
but it could still do something I think.

If this had to compete with regular subtitles, I think more
people would benefit from "scary music" or "swelling
orchestra". With a score, you're limited to people who (a)
could once hear and (b) read music.

I hear (no pun intended, but go ahead anyway) some deaf
people experience music by the vibration, so
perhaps a plug in module for your VCR, something like a
modified vibrating game controller might do the trick better.

[pomloc], I respectfully disagree. Written words are both a visual represtentation of the spoken sound, and a description of the "thing"/"idea" as well. eg: "table" describes both "flat thing with legs for dining etc" and the sounds "Tay"-"Bill".
Where-as music score is PURELY an annotation of the sound. And if you don't know what sound IS, it is meaningless.